“The workhouse served as a refuge for the city ... Bristol is about a 120-mile drive west from London.

BORN in 1812 and dead in 1870, English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic Charles John Huffam Dickens created some of literature’s best-known fictional characters. Some even ...

Expelled from the workhouse for having had the temerity to ask for more gruel, Oliver is placed as an apprentice to an undertaker, but is mistreated and runs away to London. Here he meets the ...

Oliver remains at the workhouse and his early years there in ... notices that a milestone indicates that it is only 70 miles to London. So Oliver makes London his destination.